She is the beauty of a starlit night. Full of Grace and free of sin, she has been the devotion of kings and peasants alike, as well as the middle class of the 1950s. Men and women in all generations will call her blessed, because he who is mighty has done great things for her. To call her blessed is in accordance with scripture. To not do so makes you yet another anti-Christ, no matter how many times you rant, "Praise the Lord."

March 02, 2019

Sweatshop Labor Profiteering: One of the Four Sins which Cry to Heaven for Vengeance

The pertinence as to why this article is here at the Marian site is because Defraud-
ment of Laborers of their Wages is one of the four sins which cry to Heaven for
Vengeance. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is in the pipeline and promises to be
NAFTA on steroid.

As a quick reminder, Marian devotion does NOT consist in kissy-poo ribbons
& bows w/ flowers on altars. It's a matter of killing the pain of other while keep-
ing yourself from killing others in the many ways in which you can destroy a per-
son's life. Such pain-killing is known as works of charity/mercy. After all, faith
without good works is dead faith, and he who sees that a certain good act is need-
ed to be done and neglects to do it sins.

The point ot Marian devotion is to keep out of mortal sin. This includes not
being an accessory to such sin ... including defraudment of laborers of their
justly due wages. If you are against the livable wage, then go to Hell, being
that you're going there anyway, if you die with that sweatshop, slave-wage
mindset.

It's point is: 1} to soar with the angels, 2} to prevent oneself from being ornery,
hardened, & callous, 3} to be in control of one's senses, while conquering one's
cravings, 4} to be sensitive enough to feel the pain of others, 5} to stay out of
Hell.

Observing economic justice is a part of Marian devotion. In fact, the quest to
live according to a valid conscience is a requirement in Marian devotion.

Preliminary Notes: As of January 2015, the
Chinese yuan (the renminbi yuan) was worth
approximately 16 American cents. Russia's
ruble and India's rupee were worth 1.6 cents,
American. A Polish zloty was worth 27 cents,
American. The Euro was worth $1.19 US.

In 1986, when the Reagan administration and Congress opened trade with China,
the average Chinese wage was 24 cents an hour. By 2010, it was 75 cents an hour,
for a Cantonese worker. Today, the wage continues to depend on the region, and
ranges from $1.23 in Guangxi to $2.58 in Beijing, according to the 2013 law that
mandated the Chinese minimum wage to equal to 40% of the average urban wage.
Yet, there are reports, such as one from Business Insider, which mark the average
Chinese salary at 80 cents an hour. Thus, we again have inconsistent reporting.

What is known is that there have been worker suicides, threats of collective sui-
cides, rioting, protests, and physically demanding living conditions. In addition,
Vietnam, with its low wage rate, has become the new China/Bangladesh. This is
because the Chinese nation is beginning to be a "service economy," as opposed
to a "manufacturing economy." None the less, it's important to note that the the
Russian minimum wage is approximately $1.04. Thus, it is projected to become
lower than the Chinese wage, should the 2013 Chinese law be observed.

End of preliminary notes. ___________________________________________________________________ Americans wear clothing made by overseas sweatshop employees. Americans buyappliances made in sweatshop nations. In almost every American home, you willfound the phrase, Made in China, more often than Made in USA, no matter whatbe the category of not-very-durable durable good.

Sweatshop people don't have lives. Nor were they given any appreciable identity. As a result, sweatshop employees would be found with slit wrists, time and timeagain. Eventually came the implementation of the suicide net. Americans hold sweatshop workers in a living death, be these the workers in Bangladesh, China,Vietnam, Guatemala, El Salvador, etc. Now, some Americans keep these workerslodged in this state of slavery out of cowardice, while others do so out of selfish negligence. Yet, others do so out of greed.

Why would anyone want to rule over a humanity that had its humanity strippedaway from itself? Who wants to rule over a society of humans-made-robot or humans-made-animal ... or even humanity-turned-zombie? The state of thoseruled is a reflection on the rulers. The makers of ghettos are ghettos withinthemselves, no matter how plush be their domiciles and how high be theirbank accounts. Concerning the greed part ...The United States does NOT make money from importing merchandise made by low-waged foreign sweatshop workers. It has been constantly losing through this type ofimportation. While Communist Chinese merchandise ships come to America, Ameri-can dollars goes to Maoist China. So too is this the case with all other foreign nations whose workforce can't afford to buy American products and/or services, in any type of two-way, fair trade, economic traffic. No foreign nation pays the United States to take its merchandise. In fact, the Chinese Communist dictators do not even give Americans a commission for selling their merchandise.

America is not making out like a bandit in a business practice which constitutes a crime against humanity. There is only a small percentage of Americans make out like bandits, often sending their spoils to overseas tax havens. Meanwhile the rest of America finds itself on the losing end of the steadily diminishing currency flow, in increments. This chronic loss has been in the trillions of dollars. This is the trickle-away effect.

A flow of American dollars goes into Communist Dictatorial China, as well to each of the NAFTA nations, never to return to the States, without America finding itself in anincreasing state of treasury bond debt to foreign entities. The money lost in Republican Party Economics is called the U.S. Trade Balance DEFICIT. The total deficit for the past 10 years has been $5.929 trillion (2003 to 2012). The accumulative deficit for the past 20 years (for goods & services) has been $7.988 trillion (1993 to 2012). For goods only, the 20 yr U.S. International Trade Balance Deficit has been $9.236 trillion.

All gone. Bye bye. No more. Au revoir. Not even a post card. In addition, sweatshop workers threatened suicide, on account of the harsh conditions in the compounds that manufacture the products which go to the United States. This means that Americans have become unconscionable slave drivers by proxy, all the while destroying their own economy.

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Now, foreign trade is fine, if and only if the foreign workers can afford American pro-ducts. That is to say, buying foreign is fine, if foreign occasionally buys American, inreturn. Thus, fair trade is a necessity, in order for foreign trade not to result in disast-er for one of the two trading nations. Fair trade requires a reasonably balanced two-way street of import and export traffic.

Concerning America, Chinese workers would not have been able to have afforded American products anyway, beyond wheat products, in Equitable Foreign Trade, ev-en if America had not ceased being a manufacturer of household consumer products in significant quantities.

The Total Deficit, as is charted below, is MINUS $5,929,000,000,000.This comprises trade with all nations.This comprises goods and services.

The hypocrisy is that trillions of American dollars stayed in the permanent posses-sion of the Chinese Communist Dictatorship, in the name of Democracy andCapitalism, as well as Republican Party Values.

In addition, the total/aggregate U.S. Trade Balance Deficit for only the month
of November 2012 rose $6.6 billion, to $48.7 billion (for that one month only.)
This means that the Trade Gap Rate rose by 15.9%. As I have previously stat-
ed, if this Trade Balance Deficit behavior continues, America will be a political
entity in the history books, compared to the Argentina which, at one time, was
regarded a world power.

Thus ends the mystery as to why millions of Americans had the hardest timefinding employment; especially those of a livable wage.

At this point, repeat after me: "That's a lot of sweatshops."

A Crime Committed upon the Parentis a Crime Committed upon the Childand Visa Versa

An injustice thrust upon adults is one that is equally forced upon the children of those adults. Poverty in the home of the parent is poverty in the home of the child. Sweat-shop labor imposed upon adults is an evil that also assails children.

And it came to pass, as the first decade of the 21st Century progressed, that right
wing conservative business entities saw to it that religious objects and Christmas ornaments would be made in sweatshops. The people tagged as the hard work-ing moral majority negated the purpose for the coming of Christ, doing so in the name of sacred rites. All the while, they made money on interest-bearing instru-ments and extremely cheap labor, doing absolutely nothing in the process.

And it also came to pass that no Christmas gift was being made at the North Pole by elves. Rather, they were being made in Chinese and Bangladesh sweatshops by severely underpaid workers, some of whom applied razor blades to their wrists, in order to kill the pain that the Reaganite Moral Majority were collectively inflicting upon them.

And it furthermore came to pass, as the 21st Century progressed, that millions held Christianity in contempt, being that millions were deceived into thinking that Ameri-can Corporate Predatory Greed was the religion of the Nazarene rabbi who was put to a Roman death shortly after he drove Money Changers from the Jerusalem Temple.When the Nazarene entered Jerusalem, the Jews placed palm branches before him.Within a week, the Romans ended up driving nails into him. Today, the right wingmasters of hypocrisy and greed crucify the Nazarene anew.

Humanity then became enlightened as to what the Protestant Work Ethic really is. It's the incessant practice of using African slaves, Irish Catholic immigrants, East-ern European immigrants, Chinese sweatshop workers, and similar victims to do the Protestants' work for them.

In the words of an adviser, "Now, that labor's cheap, human life has become cheap." (in the eyes of right wing moral majority conservatives.) In the Nineteenth Century, the States that comprised the Confederate South used local chattel slavery to achieve their hallowed Protestant work ethic. In the 21st Century, the same States and other ones used Slavery by Proxy, as in foreign sweatshop labor profiteering. It's the same Jefferson Davis hypocrisy, done in the name of "States' Rights" and a "Moral Majority" which is neither moral nor a majority.

Update: In the month of August 2011, the Trade Balance Deficit with China, alone,
increased by 7.42%, to $29 billion. This is the statistic for one month of trading, in
terms of goods and services. This was a new record at the time. In as much, China
came out on top for the 304th consecutive month, in its trading with the United States.
Furthermore, the United States has not had a trade balance surplus in trading with the
Chinese Communist Dictatorship since April of 1986. This amounts to 24 years and
16 consecutive months of money leaking into a dictatorship, by the billions per month.
America is a leaking ship soon to capsize. It is now the of 2013. The United States
has gone 327 consecutive months accumulating a deficit, in commerce with China.

Here is the irony: In August 2011, corporate greed breaks a new record, to the detri-
ment of the 90% of the rest of America. The following month began the showdown
with corporate greed, in the form of the worldwide OWS movement. FoxNews, in a
predictable fashion, defamed the surprisingly peaceful people who elected to assert
their First Amendment Rights. All the while, official statistics prove that the First
Amendment people of Zuccotti Park were generally correct. Greed has been destroy-
ing America all along, and sweatshop importation has been the vehicle doing so.

Now, the most current news (at the time of this writing) is that the monthly Trade
Balance Deficit,, in trading with China, has decreased (narrowed) in February and
March 2013. In fact, the total U.S. Trade Balance Deficit decreased. Yet, it was
still woefully significant ... detrimental to the U.S. money supply. In January, the
trade deficit in trade with China was $27.8 billion. In February, it was $23.4 billion
lost to the quintessential sweatshop profiteer nation. In March, the amount lost to
a China notorious for its civil rights abuses was $17.8 billion. Money lost to China,
in unfair trade practices, for the first the months of the Year 2013, was $69 billion.

The Laws Against this Type of Profiteering WereAlready on the Books, in United States Federal Law.

It wouldn't have required any courage for any public figure to have stepped forthand initiate movements designed to end America's complicity with slave labor pro-fiteering. This is because laws against it are already on United States law books. There's Section 307 of the 1930 Tariff Act, along with the May 2000 amendment to that act. Both are found in 19 USC 1307. How much does NAFTA conflict with this?

Despite the Law, Sweatshop LaborImportation Has Been Rampant

There is a loophole in the 1930 Tariff Act. The law doesn't prohibit the importation of indentured/slave/convict/forced labor products "which are not mined, produced, or manufactured in such quantities in the United States as to meet the consumptive demands of the United States." In addition, there are recent trade agreements that don't require the enforcement of morally needed international labor laws. This means that foreign workers stand in direct jeopardy of being brutally abused, due to no pres-ent legal recourse, short of the Nuremberg case law authority. Plus, there is the alle-gation that the 1930 Tariff Act is not being enforced.

The evidence is publicly evident. Sweatshop labor, forced labor, and plantation la-bor is rampant throughout the modern world in general. So, is the used of minorsas combat soldiers. Many products made by laborers defrauded of their wageshave been entering American docks and airports for years. It's equivalent to re-ceiving stolen property on a grand scale. It has robbed America of its money supply.

The names of the corporations who have capitalized on sweatshop labor have long since been posted throughout the Internet. Some have faced federal lawsuits. In fact, the offending corporations were often household names. The amount of avail-able information on this topic is so vast that it would require at least an entire webpage, in order to post the links to it.

When You Liberate Others, You Liberate YourselfA properly paid foreign worker has a way of increasing product demand for Amer-can products, even from a third party nation. For example, properly paid Chinese workers might only buy from Europe. However, the increased European revenue might result in Europe importing more from America, thereby bringing income toAmerica. Such a thing puts American workers back to work, assuming that thelevel of manufacturing will increase in the United States, so that workers will be indemand. Such a thing can also enable mid-sized entrepreneurs to either compete in smaller scaled markets or more easily enter the ranks of subcontractor, simply byvirtue of increased demand.Slave Labor Profiteering is Even an Injusticeto the Citizenry of the Nation that Engages in it

Foreign slave labor profiteering results in unfair advantages over the citizens of the nation that practices it. This is because those who profit from foreign slave labor steal economic power from the multitudes, and in the process, they steal multiple advantages from their fellow countrymen. That is to say, they cheat in order to get their standing in life, and that is unfair to everyone else. After all, the averageentrepreneur cannot compete with the low wage advantage that these corporationsuse for their selfish gain, at the expense of the US Trade Balance Account and the Gross Domestic Product, as well as the per capita income. Foreign slave labor profiteering, therefore, is even an act of violence committed against an offending nation's own citizenry.

A Coast to Coast Crime

If you deny that you are part of this practice, simply go into your closet and read the labels on your clothing. Then go into your kitchen and read the labels on your appliances. Go next throughout your house, your place of work, and elsewhere, reading the labels on the newer merchandise. If you have any merchandise from a sweatshop, then the practice of slave labor profiteering has reached your life.

In addition, if you work for a sweatshop profiteering corporation, you're involved.You are an accessory to the fact. This includes what you find under your Christ-mas tree.

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